"Cognitive stimulation" refers to activities or experiences that help to engage and challenge our thinking abilities. It involves tasks that require us to use our brain, such as solving puzzles, reading, learning new things, or engaging in problem-solving activities. This kind of stimulation is important for keeping our minds active and healthy.
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Sleeping more than 8 hours and less than 6 and the lack
of cognitive stimulation such as reading favors the development of cognitive impairment in people over 65.
Intervention participation predicted more
cognitive stimulation in the home environment, even when controlling for contextual factors unrelated to the intervention.
To determine
whether cognitive stimulation, emotional support, and television viewing at age 4 years are independently associated with being a bully at ages 6 through 11 years.
If so, early bullying might prompt reduced emotional support and
cognitive stimulation by the parents and more television viewing.
It remains to be shown whether the effect of
low cognitive stimulation on childhood obesity is mediated by higher levels of TV viewing.
Parenting practices
facilitating cognitive stimulation, setting limits, and expressing warmth are associated with lower likelihood of being or becoming overweight and can be promoted by healthcare professionals.
Of the potential confounding variables, race, maternal obesity, academic grade retention, maternal education, poverty status, and HOME - SF
cognitive stimulation score acted as joint confounders, altering the relationship between behavior problems and overweight in the multiple logistic regression model.
Design Using data from a nationally representative data set, we regressed 4 measures of cognitive development at ages 6 and 7 years on television viewing before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years, controlling for
parental cognitive stimulation throughout early childhood, maternal education, and IQ.
«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with
limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
It was also found that nonpharmacologic interventions such as exercise and group
cognitive stimulation therapy offered some benefit in cognition as well.
The commission also found that nonpharmacologic interventions like
group cognitive stimulation therapy and exercise conferred some benefit in cognition as well.
The relationship was strengthened in the subsample of previously normal - weight children, with race, maternal obesity, HOME -
SF cognitive stimulation score, and 1996 BMI z score acting as confounders (adjusted odds ratio: 5.23; 95 % confidence interval: 1.37 — 19.9).
Using data from a nationally representative data set, we regressed 4 measures of cognitive development at ages 6 and 7 years on television viewing before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years, controlling for parental
cognitive stimulation throughout early childhood, maternal education, and IQ.
This leader program in
cognitive stimulation offers multi-dimensional, systematic training of each cognitive skill, allowing the brain activation of fundamental neural patterns.
«Possible clinical implications indicate the importance of adapting elements of enriched environments to humans, such as prolonged and intensive physical activity, possibly combined with
intensive cognitive stimulation.
New research in the field of adaptive human - robot interaction (HRI) will provide tools for the robots to
support cognitive stimulation and social inclusion, which improve over time by learning from and adapting to the state of the user.
Transgenerational effects of caloric restriction on longevity, B - vitamins silencing bad genes,
cognitive stimulation revering neurodegenerative disease, exercise increases neurogenesis, and vitamin D controls aging.
The San Diego Humane Society's Pet - Assisted Therapy Program has noticed how even the most profoundly affected patients have displayed improved appetite, more social interaction and tactile and
cognitive stimulation after interactions with pets.
As the child advances in school, additional noncompliance with adults creates child - teacher interaction problems that also may result in
less cognitive stimulation.
Conduct problems also were robustly predicted by low levels of early mother -
report cognitive stimulation when infant temperament was controlled.
Such findings have been attributed to three major environmental influences on the development of EF;
general cognitive stimulation (exposure to books and toys), psychological stress (household chaos and conflict), and parenting styles (responsive versus neglectful; Bernier et al., 2010; Farah et al., 2008; Schroeder & Kelley, 2009).
The magnitudes of the emotional support and
cognitive stimulation scores were meaningful, with a 1 - SD increase in each of these scores at age 4 years associated with a 33 % decrease in the odds of being a bully in grade school.
Socioeconomically disadvantaged children tend to experience less linguistic, social, and
cognitive stimulation from their caregivers and home environments than children from higher SES homes (Hart and Risley, 1995; Bradley et al., 2001; Bradley and Corwyn, 2002; Rowe and Goldin - Meadow, 2009).
To control for this confounding by parental preferences and investment in cognitive outcomes, we included a measure of
parental cognitive stimulation, from the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment - Short Form, assessed at ages younger than 3 years, 3 to 5 years, and 6 years.
According to Psychology Today, «Touchscreens offer an intuitive interface which enable toddlers to gain intense contingent sensory stimulation during a peak period of neural development and at an age when the relatively immature motor and linguistic systems have previously
limited cognitive stimulation.»
We assumed that these data were missing at random, 41 which means that the «missingness» is random after taking into account known values on cortisol; child sex, race / ethnicity, age, and school status;
cognitive stimulation at home42; and child social competence.43, 44 We used multiple imputation methods45 according to the SAS Multiple Imputation procedure46 with 10 replicated imputations.
Conclusion The early home environment,
including cognitive stimulation, emotional support, and exposure to television, has a significant impact on bullying in grade school.
An evaluation
of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy sessions for people with dementia and a concomitant support group for their carers.
Positive, responsive relationships with caring adults are among the most important influences in early cognitive development, 35 — 37 and previous studies also indicate the central role of
cognitive stimulation in the home.18 In this study, reading and computer use, but not the number of toys and children's DVDs, had a sizable impact on early cognitive gradients.
Goodness of fit values were not satisfactory
for cognitive stimulation, parental aspiration and coercive discipline, and path models for these are therefore not presented.
Although Oddy and colleagues controlled for variables such as socioeconomic status, maternal education and
early cognitive stimulation for babies such as being read to, they did not account for parental intelligence, parenting style or other factors that can influence breastfeeding duration, such as maternity leave and other social support systems.